Low Range
Series IIA Ignition Cut out?
Been having a electrical Gremlin here. Replaced coil, dist, points/cond
etc...also checked fuel pump, carb, plugs. Replaced ignition switch and wiring.
The problem is strange...the ignition will just cut out...if I flip the
switch it will start up again..run for a while and cut out randomly.
I know it sounds like a short somewhere. I have been putting off
replacing the entire wiring harness for a while. I'm hoping there is
a easy fix here that someone may have run into before?
Low Range
I'm sure there's a thousand different possibilities, but I had a similar problem a while back. Mine's a SIII, but I discovered tha when I tapped the bottom of the steering column, where my fuse box is located, I could cause it to do the same thing. What I figured out was that one of the prongs that the fuse sits in was a little loose, and would cause the ignition to cut on and off while driving. I simply took the fuse out and crimped the prongs tighter with a needlenose plier.
It's sometimes the really simple things that can cause a major problem. Don't feel dumb if it is something like that, we've all been there and it took me a while to find my gremlin
2nd Gear
Have you inspected the ignition switch itself (where the key goes in)? With age, these parts wear, and you could have an intermittent connection here. Turning the switch makes the connection, and then a bump comes along and rattles it loose on you...
Maybe check this before the harness ends up in the land fill.
Owner: James Leach Global Expedition Services.
1995 110 Regular
Low Range
I've been told that SIIAs truck does'nt not have a fuse in the iginition circuit...
but I will check to see if someone has done some "custom wiring". Thanks
for the reply!
Low Range
Jim,
I have replaced the switch...the switch that was in there was a Kragen
special, so of course That was the first thing I threw out. The harness
is 37 years old and getting crunchy. I've heard of a place in Portland
that sells replacement harnesses for less than 200 bucks. It's called
the Hoffman Group. I'm thinking of ordering one of those for prevenative
maintenance. It would really suck to replace the harness and have the
problem not go away.
http://www.thehoffmangroup.com/KeepI...cts_KICK.lasso
Last edited by 109sixer; 04-13-2007 at 02:10 PM.
Overdrive
Where is your ignition switch? Dashboard or the steering column?
If it's in the dash, then I would check the connections in the back. There is a lot of room for things to get pushed around back there though the years. You know, someone fixes a dash bulb but crammed all the wires back in there when reassembling the dash, causing too much stress on a connector for the ignition. Then one good bump, 10 years later and it comes loose and now you have a gremlin.
Overdrive
Oh, just thought of a test you can do to check the ignition switch (and possibly remove the coil, dist, wires etc from the equation).
Turn on your heater blower on, or something else that works only when the ignition switch is on, and wait for the issue to show up again. When the engine fails then you will know it's the ignition switch if the blower fails too. If it doesn't then it might not be the switch but could be the wires further down the line.
Good luck!
Low Range
Tried the heater switch trick...the engine cuts out but the fan keeps going.
It seems to get worse when it has been running for a while ( Hot ).
By the way the power to the heater switch comes from the coil? This thing
is a mess!
5th Gear
not all heaters are wired to the ignition side. not a surefire test.
Originally Posted by 109sixer
A Land Rover would never turn up to collect an Oscar. It'd be far too busy doing something important, somewhere, for someone."
Overdrive
True, true. Was hoping for something easy and forgot about that.
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